In Nigeria, where there are large Muslim and Christian populations, Muslims can not, for example, ask the government to provide Islamic law courts without being pressured to acknowledge an equal public status for Christianity. (firstthings.com)
There are also fundamental issues that favor COVS, primarily the recent change in executive management and the freedom its new public status will provide the company. (longtermvalue.wordpress.com)
«The police now believe that MPs are so reduced in public status that they are fair game for over-excited officers to order dawn raids, arrests and searches of confidential files held by MPs or those who work for them. (theguardian.com)